Although I do like the ideas of not working or not having summer classes, there is a bigger thing I miss about summers as a child.

I would run around the yard until my feet were blacker than the driveway pavement and run down the hill when I heard the ice cream truck. No matter how tired or scratched up I got, I still wanted to go back out day after day and play with my friends. The days seemed like they lasted forever and I never worried about anything except the occasional summer reading.

Summers are different now as an adult. You don't have to read this article to know that. Trying to plan the days that you want to be running around outside all day are hard because now all of your friends have a job. Or even you have a job. We college kids gotta save that money... Right?

For me, summers are now focused on my life after college. My financial standing post bachelor's degree rests in the hands of good paying internships and minimum wage job of Target.

Believe me, it's not that I don't like focusing on the future, planning my success. I miss the simplicity of it all.

My favorite part of the summer is when we get to go back to school shopping. I got to pick out new outfits, shoes, fresh pencils and notebooks. Both made me feel like I was ready to go back school! I still do it now but the system works a little differently... Now I'm the one paying. It's more scattered too. I don't always have an ENTIRE DAY to spend looking for clothes, most of them which I don't like that much anyway.

I need fewer school supplies but if I need more during the year, I go buy them myself; something I couldn't do when I was nine.

Don't get me wrong, there are definitely things that I miss about summers as a kid and things that I don't like about being an adult during the summer. But I don't think that I would trade any of the friends that I made from working my summer jobs or getting ready for college.